[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> DOing formed blocks is sort of inelegant. You're taking a
> REBOL data structure, a block, and then turning it into a
> string. By the DOing the string the interpreter actually
> turns the string back into a block of REBOL data types
> before evaluating it. It's not very optimal. Just DOing
> the original string ends up being half as much work.
Yes, but either way it doesn't seem like a whole lot of work, unless
you're talking about a REALLY long command-line on a really slow
machine. :-)
> Another idea that was brought up was that you could have
> more than one view of the command line args available, so
> those that want the separation of args would have it in a
> block somewhere, and those that want just a doable string
> would have it somewhere else. Best of both methods
> approach.
>
> Would that work for us disgruntled REBOL command liners? (-:
Sounds great to me!
-Jake
